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Okay - so I have been checking this totally hand made cooking system from Mini Bull Designs.
I got one in the other day. This guy is always building new stuff - so from month to month his product line changes. He is fairly addicted to making stoves.
I bought his Paradigm cooking kit with a Compact Alcohol Burner (CAB) (this one was called the Bongo) and some other stuff.
Here is what it came with:
Two 16 ounce Zip Lock cooking containers that fit together with a modified threaded ring.
Two 2 ounce bottles for holding alcohol
One one ounce bottle for the remote unit
Remote unit (made from PVC)
Pot stand (made from wire screen)
Wind Screen (made from thick aluminum shim material)
Bongo CAB (stove made from billet aluminum and neoprene)
Fosters One Pint beer can (modified into a pot by putting 30 feet of wick on the side as a pot holder and making the lid removable.
When you pack it all up it looks like this:
It weighs only 14 ounces (Compare with a Jet Boil that weighs 16 ounces without the fuel - 22 ounces with fuel), uses Denatured Alcohol, 180 proof booze, Gas Line Anti Freeze (a product called HEET) and a few other things. It is about 7 inches high and about four wide when packed.
You simply screw the one ounce alcohol bottle into the remote holder (it is made from PVC) and your add a little alcohol to the Carbon sponge that acts as a wick. You then light it up (a firesteel would work fine here).
Five minutes brings 1/2 pint to a rolling boil and about 8 minutes for a pint. It burns about 3.5 ounces of alcohol per hour.
This thing is tons of fun. It cost about 65 dollars for everything I bought has no working parts to foul and would work forever I wager.
Here it is burning:
If you wanted a small system you could pack, melt snow, heat meals, and have it dummy proof - this may be for you.
TF
I got one in the other day. This guy is always building new stuff - so from month to month his product line changes. He is fairly addicted to making stoves.
I bought his Paradigm cooking kit with a Compact Alcohol Burner (CAB) (this one was called the Bongo) and some other stuff.
Here is what it came with:
Two 16 ounce Zip Lock cooking containers that fit together with a modified threaded ring.
Two 2 ounce bottles for holding alcohol
One one ounce bottle for the remote unit
Remote unit (made from PVC)
Pot stand (made from wire screen)
Wind Screen (made from thick aluminum shim material)
Bongo CAB (stove made from billet aluminum and neoprene)
Fosters One Pint beer can (modified into a pot by putting 30 feet of wick on the side as a pot holder and making the lid removable.
When you pack it all up it looks like this:
It weighs only 14 ounces (Compare with a Jet Boil that weighs 16 ounces without the fuel - 22 ounces with fuel), uses Denatured Alcohol, 180 proof booze, Gas Line Anti Freeze (a product called HEET) and a few other things. It is about 7 inches high and about four wide when packed.
You simply screw the one ounce alcohol bottle into the remote holder (it is made from PVC) and your add a little alcohol to the Carbon sponge that acts as a wick. You then light it up (a firesteel would work fine here).
Five minutes brings 1/2 pint to a rolling boil and about 8 minutes for a pint. It burns about 3.5 ounces of alcohol per hour.
This thing is tons of fun. It cost about 65 dollars for everything I bought has no working parts to foul and would work forever I wager.
Here it is burning:
If you wanted a small system you could pack, melt snow, heat meals, and have it dummy proof - this may be for you.
TF
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